Improvement in wooden trunks



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Letters Patent N o. 94,009, dated August 24, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN WOODEN TRUNKS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making paxt of the same.

To all whom 'it may conce/rn Beit known that I, J AcoB Laeowrrz, of Newark, in the county of Essex, and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and useful Improvement in ythe Manufacture of Wooden Trunks; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the' art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of v this specification, in Which- Figure 1 represents a perspective view of a trunk, made by my improved method.

Figures 2 and 3 are edge views of boards used forf The invention consists more particularly in the manner of treating the separate boards before they are put together to form the trunk.l

Heretofore, the boards, after having'been properlyv shaped, were put together to form the trunk, and then the leather, or imitation leather covering, Wasapplied to the trunk. ',lhe leather was then creased, and ornamented on the body of the trunk, which could only be done by hand, and was a process both laborious and tedious.

By my invention, the process of applying the leath-v er is simplified, as well as thatof creasing.

I iirsicover the face of a board or. plank, A, that has been out to the requisite size, with leather, a, or its equivalent, as in fig. 2. 'Ihe boards for the whole trunk are, in this manner, irst covered.

The leather surface is now creased or ornamentedv by running the board through a creasing-machine, or by pressing the ornaments upon it.

It is evident that in this manner the ornameutingprocess must be carried on much quicker than by the old method of handcreasing on the nished trunk.v

When the leather has thus been creased, the boards are put together, in the usual manner, to form the trunk. l

Those boardswhich are to-be curved, as, for example, those used for the trunk-cover, are, previous to the' putting together, curved, between heated plates or surfaces, into the required shape, as indicated in figs. 3 and 4.

The creasing having been completed previous to the curving-process, no diiiiculties with working. on the rounded surface are to be overcome.

The trunk produced is, as illustrated in fig.` 1, not different from those now in use, but is cheaper,and as good las the same.v

Having thus described my invention,

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters'latent, is A l 1. The herein-described method of making wooden trunks, by covering the boards separately with leather, or its equivalent, and ornamenting or creasing the same preparatory -to putting the saine together, substantially as speciied.` I

2. Covering and ornamenting theboards for a curved trunk-cover, previous to the bending ofthe same, substantially as herein shown and'described.-

The above specification of my invention signed by me, this 10th day of June, 1869.

` J AGOB LAGOWITZ.

Witnesses: V

FRANK BLOCKLEY, ALEX. F.RoBERTs. 

